An other shop bites the dust. Torquay is becoming littered with empty shops unfortunately. This shop is a bit like Woolies, not as big but with a wide range of goods at inexpensive prices. That doesn’t mean to say cheap, we bought a clock there years ago for £5 and though it loses a minute every six weeks it is still running well and on the same battery. And there are lots of other items available. Cigarette lighters to chip pans, Christmas decorations to CD covers, torches to tools, towels to electric plugs. A bit like what Woolies used to sell back in the days when they were successful. Now all Woolies sell seems to be CDs, mobile phones and toys. Things everyone else does better. But a few months ago the WHSmiths just down the road closed and was replaced by a Poundland Store. Everything for a pound. I went in needing a pen one day and got 5 for a pound. The first one I used didn’t even last long enough to write one word before it quit. The second had plastic fatigue and the barrel cracked in two while I was writing the 2nd word.
Sorry to see you go DG Discount Store.
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our local town has a poundland and a poundstretcher and another smaller discount store. they blend in well with the wall to wall charity shops and estate agents that appear to make up most of the uk high street presence these days.
We call them $2 shops here. A pound used to be equivalent to $2 when our currency changed. Were the pens made in China? - Dave
Thanks for that info Number, I just thought it was Torquay that had wall to wall charity shops. What's an 'Estate Agent'?
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